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Cygnet Weekly update
13th December 2016
Firstly congratulations to Tim for his win in British Rowing Indoor Champs on Saturday in the mens 40-49 light weight category in 6 mins 23 a full 16 seconds ahead of second place. So that sets the standard for the Cygnet 2k test on Saturday morning. Common, guys we like a challenge! Good to see that Cygnet traditions were upheld at the Barnes Bridge Ladies Christmas Ball on Saturday night and the club bar still in use at 3am. Thanks to Tim for giving us a lie in and recovery outing on Sunday.
So yes it's a 2k ergo test on Saturday, target is to improve by 2 secs on your previous time, maybe a quiet Friday night would be good preparation rather than another 3am in the bar.
This week:
Tuesday
7:15pm Cavendish School - Maxi Circuits - last session before Christmas, tone the abs for your work Christmas Party.Wednesday:
7pm Club Run 7k easy/7k hard non runners Non runners 7 x 5' squats/1' rest Rate 27Thursday:
7pm Squad Ergo
Full race warm up 4 x 500m @ 2k pace 2' rest 20' cool downSaturday:
2k Ergo Test, first group at 10am (warm up times and schedule to be sent later)
Second session ergo team relayNote that this is for the seniors and novice squads, there is no escape!
Sunday:
Squad outings - meet at 7:20, OTW at 7:45
Second outing: Boating by 10 to get to the Pink House in for a side-by-side piece back to the club. Crews to be announced one we have the last couple to make up the boats.Sunday's outings will be followed by mulled wine and minced pies at the club.
Have a good week,
Jez
Cygnet Weekly Update
29th November 2016
All,
A briefer update this week as I'm out of town for the week...
Firstly huge congratulations to Big Dave for winning his category in Scullers Head on his debut and a top 100 finish (96th). The full results for Cygnet and BBL were (before handicap)
96 Dave 23:31
226 Bart 24:32
328 Robin 25:16
363 Guy 25:30
371 Jez 25:32
412 Katy 26:02
432 Cris 26:24
And congrats to Coach Tim who won his Mas B category and was 11th overall in 22:22.
This week:- Tuesday 7:15pm Circuits with Maxi at Cavendish School
- Wednesday 7pm Squad run (work tbc)
- Thursday 7pm Squad erg (work tbc)
- Saturday Sunday outings returning to bigger boats - early o'clock timings tbc
Tim will publish the next months training plan in the next day and I'll up this with the details as and when
PLEASE UPDATE YOUR AVAILABILITY for this week as soon as possible to help plan the weekend outings. and
18th December - Plum Puddings race - please enter PP on the spreadsheet if you want to race in this fun event. We want to enter 2 eights and the give as many novices as possible a first taste of racing.
Cheers
Jez
Cygnet Weekly Update
22nd November 2016
It was an awesome weekend on the lumpy river with all our entrants for Scullers Head out training together accompanied by a fleet of small boats which gave good steering practice to Tom, Sam and Bjarne. First time in a pair for Scott. And Scott manned up to go out in a single for the race pace session with the other scullers in the second outing. It's been really excellent to get the scullers together as a pod, working off each other and getting Tim's feedback to improve our sculling. It certainly got the competitive juices flowing before the race. Bring it on.
So Scullers Head is this Saturday at 13:30, raced down river to Putney as usual. We have six entrants (seven if we can count Tim):
- 73 Bart (Mas B)
- 218 Tim (Mas B)
- 244 Guy (Mas C)
- 465 Jez (Mas E)
- 529 Robin (Mas Nov A)
- 532 BDF (Mas Nov B)
- 533 Cris (Mas Nov B)
Please come down and cheer and enjoy the spectacle. Matt is running the book on the Cygnet finish order...
Further ahead, Quintin Plum Puddings (a festive race like mini head race) is taking place on Sunday 18th December. This is a great opportunity for our novices to get their first race like experience without it being anything too serious. In previous years we've put together two mixed crews of experienced and novices rowers, which gives a bit of intra club spice so we plan to do the same this year. Can you sign up if you want to take part by putting "PP" on the availability sheet for the 18th Dec asap.
This Week:
Tuesday 7:15pm Circuits with Maxi at Cavendish School. We all loved the 200 lunges 200 burpees finisher last week, how can we top that this week?
Wednesday 7:00pm Club Run 5k easy
Thursday 7:00pm Squad Ergo 30 min rate 20 at 76% of 2k power (scullers head entrants only do 10 mins)
Saturday Main squad outing at club by 7:20 otw by 7:45
Novice outing at club by 9 otw by 9:15 - please update your availability asap only four of you have filled in the sheet to date.
Scullers Head racers decide for themselves their warm up routine,
Sunday Meet Main squad outing at club at 7:20am otw 7:45am
Finally another plea for people to check and fill in their availability at the latest by 8pm on Wednesday for the following weekend, it only takes a couple of minutes and it lets me plan the outings, crews, coxes, boats etc on Thursday morning.
Have a good week,
Jez
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